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		<title>Encouragment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mouse looked through the crack
In the wall to see the farmer
And his wife open a package.
What food might this contain?&#8217;
The mouse wondered &#8211; - -
He was devastated to discover
It was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard,
The mouse proclaimed the warning : 
There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!&#8217; 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helpful Tips for Living with Bipolar</title>
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		<title>Causes of Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depression has no single cause; often, it results from a combination of things. You may have no idea why depression has struck you.
Whatever its cause, depression is not just a state of mind. It is related to physical changes in the brain, and connected to an imbalance of a type of chemical that carries signals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mybipolarexistence.com/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Depression 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people say that depression feels like a black curtain of despair coming down over their lives. Many people feel like they have no energy and can&#8217;t concentrate. Others feel irritable all the time for no apparent reason. The symptoms vary from person to person, but if you feel &#8220;down&#8221; for more than two weeks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your money or your health?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New research released today by national mental health charity SANE Australia has found people with a mental illness are often forced to choose between medical treatment and putting food on the table.
The key findings of SANE Research Bulletin 9: Money and Mental Illness are:
•    38% of respondents have an annual income of less than $20,000
•    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mybipolarexistence.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Trivialising mental illness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[StigmaWatch had several complaints about an advertisement by Rivers, which promoted the sale of its reversible polar fleece jacket as &#8216;bi-polar&#8217;.  The text that ensued further enforced the trivial nature of the advertisment: &#8216;Bi-Polar. Get it? You know, it&#8217;s a polar fleece vest &#38; it&#8217;s reversible, for those times when your mood changes &#38; you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Fry talks about Bipolar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fry &#8211; one of Britain&#8217;s best-loved actors and comedians, spent years drinking vodka and taking cocaine to numb the internal anguish of his depression. &#8221;I&#8217;m actually kind of sobbing and kind of tearing at the walls inside my own brain while my mouth is, you know, wittering away in some amusing fashion,&#8221; he says. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrities with Bipolar Make Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Dame Kelly Holmes: Athlete &#8220;I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.&#8221;
2. Sinead O&#8217;Connor: Musician &#8220;I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] &#8230; and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.&#8221;
3. Hugh Laurie: Actor &#8220;It gets on top of me and I get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenagers Fright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a 17 year old female and am amongst the still short-term strugglers of     bipolar disorder.  But despite only having had problems for a little     over two years, my symptoms have been quite severe &#8211; almost to the point     where I cannot imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Ashe&#8217;s Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live on a 404-hectare farm at Tullamore, 125 kilometres south-west of Dubbo in central-western New South Wales. My husband Steve and I moved here from the Snowy Mountains in 2002 to escape the cold winters.
My husband works as an electrician and I look after our two children, as well as help run the farm. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mybipolarexistence.com/?p=55</link>
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